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                <p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Before using Enterprise Architect's version control facility, your version control product must be installed on each machine where it is intended to be used. Version Control products supported by Enterprise Architect include MS Team Foundation Server, Subversion, CVS or any other version control product that provides an MS SCC-compliant interface.</span></p>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">Subversion is available from <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/" target="_blank" class="weblink">http://subversion.tigris.org/</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">CVS is available from <a href="http://www.wincvs.org/" target="_blank" class="weblink">http://www.wincvs.org/</a>.</span><br>
<span class="f_Bulletlist1">&nbsp;</span></li>
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<td width="955" bgcolor="#f7f7ff" style="width:955px; background-color:#f7f7ff;"><p class="p_TiporNoteText"><span class="f_TiporNoteText">If you are using the </span><span class="f_TiporNoteText">Corporate, Business and Software Engineering, System Engineering or Ultimate editions</span><span class="f_TiporNoteText"> of Enterprise Architect with security enabled, you must also set up permissions to configure and use version control. See the </span><span class="f_TiporNoteText" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="permissionlist.htm#VCC">List of Available Permissions</a></span><span class="f_TiporNoteText"> topic for further information.</span></p>
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<p>Typically there should be:</p>
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<li><span class="f_TextIndentedL1">A</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> server component that manages a version control repository</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">Client components on the workstations that Enterprise Architect uses to communicate with the server.</span></li>
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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">A version control client must be installed on every machine where you run Enterprise Architect and want to access your version control system. Once the version control software has been installed and configured, to use your installed version control product you must define a Version Control Configuration within Enterprise Architect.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Version control can be assigned to individual packages, view nodes or root nodes in Enterprise Architect. Each package can only be linked to one Version Control Configuration at a time, although it is possible to connect multiple control configurations for each model. You can use the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Version Control Settings</span><span class="f_BodyText"> dialog to set up a connection to your version control application.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">To set the Version Control Configuration, select the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Project | Version Control | Version Control Settings</span><span class="f_BodyText"> menu option, and see the </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="sharedfilerepos.htm">Version Control Settings Dialog</a></span><span class="f_BodyText"> topic.</span></p>
<p class="p_SeeAlso"><span class="f_SeeAlso">See Also</span></p>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="versioncontroloptionsscc.htm">Version Control with SCC</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="version_control_with_cvs.htm">Version Control with CVS</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="subversioncontrol.htm">Version Control with Subversion</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="tfs_setup.htm">Version Control with TFS</a></span></li>
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